A box of spoons recovered from the bottom of Lake Huron at the wreck of the SS Regina. Some of the artifacts recovered from the wreck are now on sale to benefit Port Huron Museum.

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Beth LeBlanc | | Times Herald

More than 25 years ago, Wayne Brusate sifted through piles of matchsticks and crates of supplies to recover bottles, spoons, and coal inside a sunken package freighter at the bottom of Lake Huron.

Now, those artifacts from the steamship Regina are finding their way to homes and museums in the United States and Canada.

Brusate, a commercial diver who discovered the Regina in 1986, donated 50 to 60 legally recovered items from the SS Regina to Port Huron Museum, and additional artifacts to the Great Lakes Maritime Institute and the Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit. ...